Posted on 10/25/2006 3:04:06 PM PDT by blam
Moon and rain could mean quakes
25 October 2006
From New Scientist Print Edition.
A full moon may have triggered the Indian Ocean earthquake that caused the tsunami on 26 December 2004, a new study concludes.
Between October 2004 and August 2005 Robin Crockett from the University of Northampton, UK, and his colleagues monitored tremors and collected tidal data along the Java/Sumatra trench. They found that major quakes were 86 per cent more likely around new and full moons, when tides are at their greatest.
"At new and full moons the biggest mass of water is being loaded and unloaded at the plate boundary," Crockett says. That might be the final push that initiates a quake.
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And you know this how???
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I miss Lijah posting on your ping....Full Moon/High tide.
JMO...Quack Quack.
Perhaps it's all those paw prints creating havoc. :O
A meteor hitting the Earth has been the subject of much attention in research. The historical data has been collected, etc.. But do scientist ever theorize what a massive meteor/asteroid/comet hit or hits on the Moon would do to the Earth?
Just throwing it out there.
Let me smell the moon in your perfume.
:')
A Celestial Collision
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This has to do with loading a greater weight of water at plate boundaries, which is a bit weird, because it's the Moon doing it, which means the load isn't any greater anyway. :')
Around 1970 there was stuff about "dilatancy", a phenomenon wherein microfractures formed from small quakes / tremors, and then the Big One followed after rain fell, lubed the microfractures, kaboom.
Sadly, predictive models for quakes remain pretty poor.
Bingo!
Bulletin: 40% of sick days are taken on Fridays and Mondays!
Clear evidence of a correlation with something if you are looking for evidence of a correlation with something.
Interesting stuff. Here's another question: What would be the results on Earth if the planet captured an asteroid in an orbit thus creating double moons. Has anyone thought of such things?
I've read stories/estimates of the weight redistribution at the end of the Ice Age. There must have been enormous earthquakes, tsunamis, volcano's and etc. If we look close enough in myths of the world, those times may still be talked about.
Probably!!
I'm a mover and a shaker. LOL
So we're experiencing global mooning?
I saw a documentary on this a couple of years ago. A scientist in SE Asia, IIRC, has been saying this for some time, and nobody listened to him. He came close to predicting the tsunami.
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